the special local circumstances which
affect those detectives
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9. Nevertheless, it is true that the
Government and the Public have many special guarantees for reliance on the
detectives employed, which did not
exist
They
are
the case
in fact
by hundreds
of the Police Force.
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Keenly watched
pointed
out by Mr. Smith, and as the Executive
receives information privately from all disposed to give it, and there
is impending
over
are
many
The new detectives the rise of being superseded,
as
at least
in the event of information, which should come from them, being
received from others.
Pars. 94.10.
10. It is also
a great
Chinese
questionable, that a number of the most respectable
are now
leagued with the
Government and would assist in
supplying information, which they would scarcely
give if they were to rely solely on the Police, and its own
unaided resources. The improved feeling
of the Chinese residents towards the
Government is well explained by Mr. Smith. The appeal made to them by the Proclamation forwarded in my Despatch (No94/1 of the 6th Ultimo)
gave
The Chinese a most
unusually frank, explanation of the position of the Government, and informed